Psalms 22: From Forsaken Cry to Praise
David's anguished cry that later echoes at the cross.
Following the victorious tone of Psalms 21, this chapter opens with the anguished cry 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me,' words later spoken from the cross in Mark 15:34. David describes being mocked, surrounded, and poured out like water.
The title of the two and twentithe salm. `The salm, ether the song of Dauid. The Lord gouerneth me, and no thing schal faile to me;
in the place of pasture there he hath set me. He nurschide me on the watir of refreischyng;
he conuertide my soule. He ledde me forth on the pathis of riytfulnesse; for his name.
For whi thouy Y schal go in the myddis of schadewe of deeth; Y schal not drede yuels, for thou art with me. Thi yerde and thi staf; tho han coumfortid me.
Thou hast maad redi a boord in my siyt; ayens hem that troblen me. Thou hast maad fat myn heed with oyle; and my cuppe, `fillinge greetli, is ful cleer.
And thi merci schal sue me; in alle the daies of my lijf. And that Y dwelle in the hows of the Lord; in to the lengthe of daies.